Tonight Washington Capitals returned home to Verizon Center with a four game losing streak to host their long time rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins a day after losing to the Columbus Blue Jackets. The injury ridden Pens came into this game looking for revenge from back on Dec. 27th when the Caps shut them out on their own home ice. Washington would foil a revenge attempt for Pittsburgh by shuttin...

Hall of Fame player now head coach Adam Oates' hopes of ending both his team's losing streak and his own losing streak were spoiled tonight by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh won tonight by a score of 2-0, taking both back-to-back games with the Caps and ending the season series with a sweep of the Caps. Oates' record against the Pens as a head coach goes now to 0-7, and the Caps have now l...

With just under 2 years to go until the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, ProSportsBlogging.com will run a 6-part feature that will identify the hockey players that will likely represent their respective countries at the Olympic Games. The 6 hockey super powers to be covered include Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and USA.
Today’s featured country: Canada
2010 Result: Gold...

The signs were there.
Though it’d been months since his January ‘11 concussion, Sidney Crosby was still having symptoms that persisted well into summer’s pre-season prep period.
An extended recovery, coupled with the brief transition time between the all-go signal and ice play, made me sense the Penguins’ captain was alright but maybe not all right.
Understandably eager to return to act...

Brady Hoke, the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team, offered a great quote recently on the subject of gauging your club’s prospects by looking at rival teams when he told Dan Patrick, “If we’ve got to talk negatives about other schools, we don’t have enough positives to talk about with what we have.”
That seems to be the general mentality of team coaches and executives...

Relying on a pair of pivots with long concussion histories is risky business, so the Maple Leafs have added depth in the form of a centreman who seems to dish out concussions rather than take them.
On Tuesday, the Leafs traded a 2012 4th round draft choice to the New Jersey Devils for David Steckel, a 29-year old centre who is perhaps best known as the guy that knocked out Sidney Crosby in last...

I was at a friends’ house my sophomore year of high school and the Blues game was on. They were playing the Winnipeg Jets. My family is not a hockey family by any means, so my exposure to the sport was very limited at the time. However, I went to a different high school than my older siblings that boasted a great hockey program in which many of my friends played and I was a regular rink rat e...

Sport is different things to different people.
For the student body, game-day is the pinnacle. Jubilation or despair when time expires, you can be sure a shindig or two will top it all off.
For the pro fan, game-time means TV gatherings and tailgates.
For the gambler and fantasy fanatic, the spectacle is only a numbers game.
And for the corporate mind, sport is a supercharged promotion vehicle....

After weeks (months?) of Lombardi trying to work something out without making this an official league issue, Lombardi has gone to his last resort, filing a grievance with the NHL. Lombardi's beef is with Steve Tambellini of the Edmonton Oilers over the Ryan Smyth trade.
First, Tambellini tried to trade Gilbert Brule to the Kings despite the fact that doctors deemed Brule unfit to play. Tha...

Earlier in the week, former Pittsburgh Penguin Jaromir Jagr said that he had the best years of his career while playing in Pittsburgh. With the media the way it is, it of course stirred up a conversation about a possible return to the ‘Burgh for Jagr. While those rumors have slowed down over the past few days, the talks about which free agents the Pens need to retain are heating up. ...

With all of the injuries that the Penguins have faced this year, not many people would have guessed a few months ago that they would even make the playoffs, let alone be seeded highly enough to have home-ice advantage in the first round. That is exactly the place the Pens find themselves in, as they get ready to square off against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the 2011 Stanley...

Atlanta is bad. Really bad. As a matter of fact they may not even be in Atlanta next year. The Pens played this game without Jordan Staal, Chris Kunitz, James Neal, and Paul Martin. Eric Tangradi made his first appearance on the ice since the ambush on February 11th.
The Pens beat Atlanta. Badly. Kennedy, Dupuis, Rupp, Letestu, and Comrie scored for the Pens. Ladd tallied the only...